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File #: 2025-2485    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: In Standing Committee
File created: 11/14/2025 In control: Committee on Finance and Law
On agenda: 11/18/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Effective date:    
Title: Resolution amending Resolution 63 of 2025, which provided for an Agreement or Agreements with Center for Hearing & Deaf Services, Inc. and Global Wordsmiths, by increasing the authorized spend for Global Wordsmiths by Nineteen Thousand Dollars ($19,000.00) for services through June 2026, for a new total cost not to exceed of One Hundred Seventeen Thousand Dollars ($117,000.00) over four and a half years.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS
Attachments: 1. 2025-2485 Cover Letter-Letter to Council on Language Access Contract 2026, 2. Summary 2025-2485

Title

Resolution amending Resolution 63 of 2025, which provided for an Agreement or Agreements with Center for Hearing & Deaf Services, Inc. and Global Wordsmiths, by increasing the authorized spend for Global Wordsmiths by Nineteen Thousand Dollars ($19,000.00) for services through June 2026, for a new total cost not to exceed of One Hundred Seventeen Thousand Dollars ($117,000.00) over four and a half years.

 

Body

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

 

Resolution 63 of 2025, entitled “Resolution amending Resolution 316 of 2022, which provided for an Agreement or Agreements with Center for Hearing & Deaf Services, Inc. and Global Wordsmiths, by increasing the authorized spend for Global Wordsmiths by Thirty-Eight Thousand Dollars ($38,000.00) for services in 2025, for a new total cost not to exceed Ninety-Eight Thousand Dollars ($98,000.00),” is hereby amended as follows:

 

Section 1.                     The Mayor, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, is hereby authorized to enter into a Professional Services Agreement or Agreements with Center for Hearing & Deaf Services, Inc. and Global Wordsmiths for professional language accessibility and communication services, and providing for the payment thereof, at a total cost not to exceed One Hundred Seventeen Thousand Dollars ($117,000.00). Expenditures are subject to budgetary appropriations in future years and are chargeable to and payable from the following accounts:

 

$20,000 payable from Account 11101.102000.53.53901.2022

$20,000 payable from Account 11101.102000.53.53901.2023

$20,000 payable from Account 11101.102000.53.53901.2024

$38,000 payable from Account 11101.102000.53.53901.2025

$19,000 payable from Account 11101.102000.53.53901.2026

 

Section 2.                     Said Agreement or Agreements shall be approved by the City Solicitor as to form.